West Michigan's Arts & Entertainment Guide
Goodbye Season Tickets, Hello Affordability & Flexibility
Written by Sponsored Content | Wednesday, 01 December 2021 13:15 |Are you a supporter of the performing arts but struggle with the affordability of season tickets? What about the dreaded commitment to purchasing tickets for performance dates months in advance?
A year ago, if you asked just about anybody on Earth what they had in store for 2021, they would say, “I have no idea.”
Jewish Theatre GR: Five Plays For Eight Nights
Written by John Kissane | Wednesday, 01 December 2021 12:54 |To tire of talking lobsters is to tire of life. Thankfully, Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids retains its youthful energy.
This month, Grand Rapids Symphony offers two spectacular, accessible, festive shows: Holiday Pops and Cirque de Noël.
Review: Wellspring Shows the Power of Change with 'Unbound'
Written by Marin Heinritz | Monday, 22 November 2021 09:50 |Two and a half weeks before Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers opened their first live, in-person performance since before the pandemic, one of the dancers tested positive for COVID-19, causing them to scrap one of the central dances they’d been rehearsing for “Unbound,” their fall concert of dance that opened Friday.
Review: 'Murder for Two: Holiday Edition' Rings in the Season With Pitch-Perfect Performances
Written by Marin Heinritz | Saturday, 20 November 2021 15:30 |It’s been more than five years since the original Murder for Two, the musical murder mystery featuring more than a dozen characters but only two actors and a singular piano, wowed Kalamazoo audiences as part of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival with the high-octane, madcap, vaudevillian, award-winning comedy.
Review: Gilmore’s Rising Star Series Is a Gift
Written by Marin Heinritz | Monday, 15 November 2021 13:57 |The 2020 Gilmore Festival was thwarted, like so many live performances, by the pandemic; however, the Rising Stars Series has returned, offering eager piano enthusiasts an opportunity to experience playing from the world’s best and brightest keyboard stylists either live, in-person, or live streamed from Kalamazoo.
Arts events across West Michigan in November 2021.
It would be incorrect to say that St. Cecilia Music Center returns to live music this month; during the pandemic, they staged many virtual shows.
In 2016, Murder For Two ran at Farmers Alley Theatre, in Kalamazoo. The musical, which centered (antically) on a detective’s interrogation of thirteen suspects, was a hit; co-founder and artistic director Jeremy Koch told me that it is among the theater’s most requested re-stagings.
